Plastic discourse needs listeners who suspend their own opinions
Evidence
A plastic discourse demands, too, a plastic receptivity and understanding [on the part of the listener]; but such plastic youths and men, possessing a temper that calmly suppresses their own reflections and opinions, in which personal thought is so impatient to manifest itself, listeners such as Plato imagined (wie sie Platon dichtet) who would attend only to the matter at hand, these would be impossible to put on the stage of a modern dialogue: still less could one count on having such readers. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1223
Categorization
- XREF: The claim that modern listeners are too impatient to suspend personal thought connects to the reader’s interest in silence and the conditions for deep listening. — connects to: Listeners adapt to flawed speakers yet recognize superior ones; The discursive turn requires reintroducing the subject as non-unitary and internally contradictory; Hegel treats space and time through a shared negative synthetic unity. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 262